‘Recession meals': Food creators brace for economic impact with budget-friendly recipes

Americans are pinching pennies while racking up views on social media.

The Trump administration’s  — and  — of tariffs on have sent  and .

Though these taxes would have an effect on many industries, they would pointedly impact the prices of grocery items, which are already elevated. Produce, coffee, fruit, cheese, nuts and other imported foods .

Discussions with China over tariffs , and experts warn that a recession  if high tariffs remain.

Needless to say, many Americans are concerned about how expensive their grocery bills are about to become.

And so, according to TikTok, the hashtag  has seen a 20% increase in posts over the last month, from March 23 to April 22.

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Videos of people making so-called “,” “” or “” meals — ways to eat for a week on  or  — are garnering millions of views.

One creator, , limits her purchases to — you guessed it — Dollar Tree stores, sharing with her nearly 3 million followers how to  or  into an Easter dinner for four.

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“It was partially born out of necessity, but also it was a fun way for me to reframe my own situation, regain some control, and try to make light of it a little bit,” , a private chef based in Asheville, North Carolina, tells TODAY.com.

He says that a sudden move and several emergency expenses put him in financial turmoil, which led him to create his ““ series.

“My bank account was in the negative and I had almost no food in my kitchen because I’d just moved in,” Boskovich, tells TODAY.com. “While it was somewhat of a stressful situation, I am always able to find some peace while cooking.”

Cooking with just the random stuff in my house until I can afford to buy food again this soggy bread was actually pretty good here’s the recipe Stale bread Garlic Thyme Cumin Pickled onion Chicken broth Cracked pepper Fennel seed Fish sauce Simmer then puree Pork floss Smoked and hot paprika to garnish 10/10

Boskovich posts innovative recipes, many of which use scant ingredients, like  to make a restaurant-worthy dish. He also  using a handful of rice and a stick of jerky he found at the bottom of his backpack.

“I kind of figured that showing people the meals I was able to make out of random ingredients could be helpful to other people facing financial difficulties, because not everyone grows up learning to be resourceful in that way,” he says.

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Another food creator names Kate (@itsmekatevee) shows in her series “” that people can  on a plant-based diet, too.

“I’m an epidemiology Ph.D. student and after  started to impact my field, I decided to cut my food budget and share my experience doing that,” she tells TODAY.com.

Kate says that she always starts planning her  by looking at what coupons and sales are available at her local grocer. “I’ve been cooking for a long time so I can usually just think of things I can make with the stuff that’s on sale, but sometimes I’ll look an ingredient up on a recipe website I like to find ideas,” she says.

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Others have taken inspiration from other periods of economic hardship in American history.

“If this is your first time being poor, I’m Kiki,” TikTok creator Kiki Rough  in a video about making recipes from the past. In one video, she , a World War II meat replacement, which reminds viewers about how  and substitutions came in handy then, and can now, too.

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“What I do is I look at how they created it in these Depression, recession and wartime cookbooks, if they’re available, and then I’ll look at modern recipes, because what was available in those books heavily rely on eggs,” Rough tells TODAY.com. “It seems like everyone had eggs back then, and now we don’t.”

Rough often makes recipes without eggs due to recent  and price hikes, even in baked goods like cinnamon rolls. She says she’s always mindful of what’s going on in grocery stores and how that affects her viewers in a time when .

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Rough says, for many, it’s not in the cards right now to host lavish dinner parties or go out for a nice meal.

“I think that we need to steer away from convenience, and I think that we need to get more confident as a society not investing so heavily on aesthetics and being comfortable to own where you’re at,” she says — and Boskovich agrees.

“Our economic and political system thrives on keeping us addicted to convenience, which fuels isolation, which deepens the divide among us,” he says, adding that cooking and sharing meals or bringing food to neighbors will help us all get through economic strife.

“I think these are powerful tools in rewiring the way that we view the world, our place in it and how we relate to our community,” he says.

Rough adds, “No one is looking out for us, so we need to look out for one another.”

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